Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax took his children&#8217;s horseback riding money to purchase the gun he used to kill their mother, according to court documents.
Divorce documents <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/16/us-news/justin-fairfax-was-a-raging-drunk-who-bought-gun-with-kids-horseback-riding-money-before-murder-suicide-court-docs/">obtained</a> by the New York Post reveal that Fairfax purchased the handgun in 2022 — the same year he left office after sexual assault allegations had severely damaged his political career — with cash that had been set aside for his children&#8217;s horseback riding lessons. Also in that same year, “heavy daily alcohol&#8221; use became part of his normal routine.
Fairfax went from being considered “a rising star” in politics to spending his days isolated in his home office surrounded by “empty wine bottles, trash and piles of dirty laundry.” The divorce documents allege he only came out “to get food or smoke cigarettes.”
His wife, Cerina Fairfax, was in the process of getting a divorce from her self-proclaimed “deadbeat” husband. Representing himself in court, Justin did not deny any of Cerina’s allegations against him. A judge ordered Justin to leave his shared home with Cerina by April 30, but 14 days before his scheduled eviction, Fairfax <a href="https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/detectives-investigate-domestic-related-murder-suicide-in-annandale/">killed</a> his wife. 
The couple’s teenage children were home at the time, and their son placed the 911 call after Fairfax had shot his wife in the basement and had gone upstairs to shoot himself in the head. Police <a href="https://x.com/FairfaxCountyPD">responded</a> to the house in Annandale, Virginia, “shortly after midnight.”
The shooting was not Fairfax’s first troubling incident involving the weapon. In 2022, he went to a public park with the firearm and a suitcase of clothes, where he was later found by his wife and her stepfather. Fairfax said he carried the weapon for protection after losing his security detail when his term ended. Around 1 a.m., his brother arranged for a mental health professional to speak with him in the park parking lot.
The Fairfaxes had been married for over twenty years when Cerina filed for divorce in July 2025. Court documents indicate that Justin’s downward spiral accelerated after he faced sexual assault allegations in 2019. According to the New York Post, after the scandal, Fairfax <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/16/us-news/justin-fairfax-couldnt-find-a-job-or-even-get-legal-clients-after-sex-assault-scandal-pal-says/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">could not</a> find a job or attract legal clients despite opening a private legal practice out of his home. Cerina worked as a dentist.
Fairfax served one term as lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022. In 2021, Fairfax ran for governor, but ultimately failed to win the Democratic primary. While Fairfax served as lieutenant governor, he pushed for gun control.

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The teenage son of former Democrat Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax called the police after his father allegedly killed his mother before committing suicide, according to disturbing dispatcher audio. 
Audio <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/16/justin-fairfax-dispatch-audio-for-murder-suicide/">obtained</a> by TMZ revealed that 16-year-old Cameron Fairfax called police shortly after midnight on Thursday to report that he believed his father had stabbed his mother. Police later said that Fairfax shot his wife, Cerina, before committing suicide.
“Caller stating that his dad might have stabbed his mom and that she’s lying on the ground bleeding, can see holes in her shirt. Unknown where his father is now,” a female dispatcher said in the audio. Shortly after, a responding officer says, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a pulse.&#8221; 
Later in the audio, an officer can be heard saying that he was downstairs with the son and that Fairfax had not been located yet. Police said that both of the couple’s children were in the Annandale, Virginia, home at the time of the killing. 
“I haven’t cleared the scene yet, I have the son with me downstairs. Units on scene to clear the house, husband’s car is still in the driveway,” an officer can be heard saying. 
A search was briefly initiated before Justin Fairfax&#8217;s body was found. He was described by an officer as “a black male, 5-foot-10, clean-shaven with short hair.”
Shortly after that search was launched, an officer found Justin Fairfax dead in a room from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. 
“We got another subject down in the bedroom upstairs, I think this is gonna be our subject. He’s got a firearm with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head,” an officer said. 
Officials said they believed the incident was linked to a “messy” divorce the couple was going through at the time. Court documents <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/04/16/us-news/justin-fairfax-was-a-raging-drunk-who-bought-gun-with-kids-horseback-riding-money-before-murder-suicide-court-docs/">reported</a> on by The New York Post allege that Fairfax was drunk who would lock himself in a room with “empty wine bottles, trash and piles of dirty laundry” and would only leave to  “get food or smoke cigarettes.&#8221;
Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said Thursday morning that the department&#8217;s top priority was the condition of the couple’s children. 
&#8220;They are interacting with us, and certainly the son was the one who called 911 during a very chaotic situation,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;I can only imagine.”
The incident comes just a few months after police said that Fairfax falsely claimed that he was assaulted by his wife and officers were called to the home. That claim was not true, police said, adding that Cerina had installed cameras throughout the house.
Justin Fairfax served as Virginia&#8217;s lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022 and faced sexual assault allegations in 2019 shortly after images surfaced of then-Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam wearing blackface. He later ran unsuccessfully for governor.

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Seven years before former Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax murdered his wife and committed suicide, he faced sexual assault allegations that derailed his rising political career.
Fairfax, who was found dead Thursday morning by police after apparently shooting his wife during a domestic dispute, was once a rising star in Democratic politics before multiple women came forward in 2019 accusing him of sexual assault. Those allegations came to light after then-Governor Ralph Northam weathered his own scandal when old pictures of him in blackface surfaced.
Following Northam&#8217;s blackface scandal, some, including former President Joe Biden, floated the idea that Fairfax could become the next governor of Virginia.
&#8220;There is no place for racism in America. Governor Northam has lost all moral authority and should resign immediately. Justin Fairfax is the leader Virginia needs now,&#8221; Biden said.
Those calls quieted down weeks later after Fairfax was accused by two women of sexual assault dating back to 2000 and 2004.
Vanessa Tyson, the first woman to lodge accusations against Fairfax, said he sexually assaulted her during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. In an <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justin-fairfax-accuser-vanessa-tyson-speaks-out-sexual-assault/">interview</a> with CBS News, she said that he forced himself on her after they started kissing in his hotel room.
&#8220;You know, and he kind of &#8230; gently takes my hands and &#8230; guides me towards the bed &#8230; And we&#8217;re still kissing, right? And it&#8217;s completely consensual,&#8221; she said. &#8220;He guides me to the bed. And then, you know, he sits down on the bed … And what happens from there, you know — we start kissing lying down, but on the very edge of the bed.&#8221;
She then accused him of forcing her head into his crotch and said she couldn’t move her neck.
The second woman, Meredith Watson, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/im-willing-to-testify-in-public-justin-fairfax-should-too/2019/02/18/d2ff73f6-31ec-11e9-813a-0ab2f17e305b_story.html">accused</a> Fairfax of raping her back in 2000 when they were both students at Duke University.
Fairfax denied both allegations and said he was being targeted, but many Democrats abandoned him and called for him to resign.
The FBI later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-investigating-origins-of-justin-fairfax-sexual-assault-allegations?author=Ashe+Schow&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=FBI+Investigating+Origins+Of+Justin+Fairfax+Sexual+Assault+Allegations">launched</a> a probe into the allegations and looked at whether there was a potential political motive at play. At the time, Fairfax said he was interviewed as part of an investigation into whether there was any benefit offered to his accusers.
During his run for governor in 2021, Fairfax compared himself to lynching victims. He accused Terry McAuliffe, one of his Democratic primary opponents, of treating him like George Floyd.
“Everyone here on the stage called for my immediate resignation, including Terry McAuliffe three minutes after a press release came out,” Fairfax said. “He treated me like George Floyd; he treated me like Emmett Till — no due process, immediately assumed my guilt. I have a son and a daughter. I don’t ever want my daughter to be assaulted, I don’t want my son to be falsely accused. And yet this is the real world that we live in.”
His claims did not garner much sympathy from Democrats, and he failed to break 5% in the Democratic primary election. After his failed gubernatorial bid, he left politics to enter the private sector.
Police suggested Thursday that Fairfax shot his wife because the couple was going through a messy divorce. They said that Fairfax was recently served papers related to the ongoing split.
“While he served as lieutenant governor, and even afterwards, was a rising star politically, not just in northern Virginia, but in Virginia, so it&#8217;s high-profile in nature,” Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said Thursday. “It&#8217;s tragic in nature, certainly a fall from grace for a relatively high-profile family that seemingly had a lot of things going in their favor.”

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Former Democratic lieutenant governor of Virginia Justin Fairfax murdered his wife before committing suicide overnight, police said Thursday. 
Police believe Fairfax shot his wife Cerina after a domestic incident at their home in Annandale, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C. Police waited hours to release the identities while they said they notified next of kin.
“Former Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife inside of their home, and then shot and killed himself,” police said Thursday, adding that the couple was in the middle of a messy divorce.
Police said that Fairfax and his wife were in the middle of an &#8220;ongoing domestic dispute&#8221; surrounding a &#8220;complicated or messy divorce.&#8221; They added that he was recently served some paperwork for an upcoming proceeding and that &#8220;apparently led to this incident last night.&#8221;
In January 2026, Fairfax claimed that he was assaulted by his wife and police were called to the home. That claim was not true, police said, adding that Cerina put cameras up throughout the house.
Local outlet Fox5 <a href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/police-man-fatally-shot-woman-before-killing-himself-annandale-home">reported</a> that the first call to report the incident came shortly after midnight from someone who said he believed his father had stabbed his mother. Police arrived and found a woman unconscious and bleeding, discovering that she had been shot. The caller did not know where their father was, but police later found him dead in another part of the house.
The house was later identified as belonging to Fairfax and there were reportedly multiple people inside the house at the time of the suspected murder-suicide. Fairfax had two children, both teenagers, who were in the house at the time of the murder. One of the children was the person who called the police. 
The first information about the killing began trickling in shortly after midnight when police <a href="https://x.com/FairfaxCountyPD/status/2044647969354317927">posted an alert</a> on their investigation.
“Shortly after midnight, officers responded to the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive in Annandale, where they located an adult male and an adult female deceased inside of a residence. Preliminarily, it appears that the adult male shot the adult female before shooting himself in a domestic related incident. We were withholding the identities of the individuals until next of kin can be notified.”
Police added that “all parties are accounted for &amp; there is no threat to the community.”
Fairfax was the lieutenant governor of Virginia from 2018 to 2022 and faced sexual assault allegations in 2019 shortly after images of then Democratic Governor Ralph Northam wearing blackface emerged.
The FBI later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fbi-investigating-origins-of-justin-fairfax-sexual-assault-allegations">conducted</a> an investigation into how the allegations surfaced against Northam and probed whether they were politically motivated.
Fairfax later ran for governor in 2021, but did not make it out of the Democratic primary. During his time in office, he pushed for gun control, including restrictions on magazine capacity and so-called assault rifles. He also supported abortion and raising the minimum wage.

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Ugly Divorce Ends In Murder-Suicide For Prominent Former Dem

FBI agents are looking into how the sexual assault allegations against then-Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D-VA) surfaced in 2019, including a possible political motivation behind them.
Fairfax <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/25/fbi-investigation-virginia-justin-fairfax/">told</a> The Intercept the in early June, the FBI interviewed him for three hours without an attorney. He and four anonymous sources connected to the investigation told the outlet that the FBI is trying to determine if money or some other benefit was offered to either of the two women who made the allegations against the former lieutenant governor. The FBI is also looking into inconsistencies in the women’s accounts, and what, if any, role Richmond, Virginia, Mayor Levar Stoney’s political network played in bringing the allegations to light.
Stoney is a political rival of Fairfax, and was apparently considering a run for governor and saw the lieutenant governor as his biggest threat, since Virginia limits governors to a four-year term.
A spokesperson for Stoney told the Intercept that the Mayor didn’t know about the allegations until they became public.
“Mayor Stoney had never heard of the sexual assault allegations against Justin Fairfax until the story broke in the news in February 2019,” spokesperson Kevin Zeithaml said. “As the mayor has said repeatedly, there is absolutely no truth whatsoever to this ridiculous accusation against him,” he added, referring to the allegations that Stoney helped orchestrate the accusations against Fairfax.
The allegations against Fairfax came after it was revealed that then-Virginia Governor Ralph Northam had worn blackface while in medical school, and national Democrats were calling for him to resign. The reason Stoney’s name has come up in the investigation is that Adria Scharf, the wife of Stoney top advisor Thad Williamson, reached out to Vanessa Tyson on Facebook after the revelations about Northam, writing “northam may be forced to resign tomorrow. Thad and I think your story should get to the local press TODAY, rather than later. Do you want me to share screen shot and your contact info (tell me what to share) with a few local respected journalists.…or alternatively give you their info? Hugs. You are pure truth love and courage.”
Tyson responded by saying Scharf could “share the screenshot with whomever,” referring to a Facebook post from Tyson claiming Fairfax had sexually assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, MA, when the former lieutenant governor was a campaign staffer. Fairfax <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43002/va-lt-governor-issues-statement-concerning-sexual-amanda-prestigiacomo">denied the accusation</a>, pointing out that The Washington Post was made aware of the accusation around the time Fairfax was inaugurated around the same time, but the outlet investigated the claim and declined to run it.
A second woman, Meredith Watson, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-second-woman-accuses-virginia-democrat-ryan-saavedra">came forward</a> shortly after Tyson to accuse Fairfax of raping her in college while they were Duke University undergraduates, another claim he has denied.
Fairfax sued CBS News for defamation over its interviews with the women, but the case was dismissed. In that lawsuit, Fairfax accused political rivals of pushing the allegations.
Now the FBI appears to be investigating Fairfax’s accusations in his lawsuit.
The FBI investigation into the origins of the allegations against Fairfax is interesting considering the FBI didn’t conduct a similar investigation into the dubious allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, even though there was similarly a political motive behind those accusations.

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Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D-VA) on Tuesday took aim at fellow Democrats who he said gave him “no due process” when he was accused of sexual assault by two women. Fairfax then compared his treatment to that of Emmett Till and George Floyd, who both died before any arrests were made.
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/va-lt-gov-fairfax-says-he-was-treated-george-floyd-n1263289">reported</a> that Fairfax, appearing at the state’s Democratic gubernatorial debate Tuesday night, responded to a question about police reform and the rush to judgment.
“The murder of George Floyd was horrific,&#8221; Fairfax said, according to NBC. &#8220;But it recalls a history in Virginia and in our nation where African Americans, in particular African American men, are presumed to be guilty, are treated inhumanely, are given no due process and have their lives impacted, in some cases taken away in an instant.”
Fairfax added that he was “falsely accused” of sexual assault.
“Everyone here on the stage called for my immediate resignation, including Terry McAuliffe three minutes after a press release came out,&#8221; Fairfax said. &#8220;He treated me like George Floyd; he treated me like Emmett Till — no due process, immediately assumed my guilt. I have a son and a daughter. I don&#8217;t ever want my daughter to be assaulted, I don&#8217;t want my son to be falsely accused. And yet this is the real world that we live in.&#8221;
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-considering-run-ashe-schow">reported</a>, Fairfax was accused of sexual assault by two women in early 2019, after it looked like he might ascend to Virginia governor following the revelation that Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) dressed in blackface while in medical school. From The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>Neither of the allegations against Fairfax have any evidence to support them outside of the allegations, yet national and local Democrats called for Fairfax to resign.
Those calls quickly disappeared after the next in line for governor, Attorney General Mark Herring, also admitted to wearing blackface in college, which would mean the next in line for governor would be a Republican.</blockquote>
The first accuser, Vanessa Tyson, claimed he sexually assaulted her at the Democratic National Convention in 2004. The Washington Post was made aware of these allegations but decided not to report them, a consideration that would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43055/washington-posts-bias-running-flimsy-accusations-ashe-schow">never be offered</a> for a Republican.
A second accuser, Meredith Watson, claimed Fairfax raped her while they were both students at Duke University. Both women have demanded a hearing before Virginia’s General Assembly. Fairfax and Virginia Democrats have refused, insisting (correctly) that law enforcement should investigate instead. No police reports have been filed regarding the allegations.
Fairfax is correct to suggest that he was provided “no due process” when he was accused, as has been the norm in the #MeToo era. Still, his comparisons to men who died is a bit over the top. Emmett Till was murdered after he was falsely accused of raping a white in 1955. George Floyd died in 2020 while being arrested after a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kept his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. Chauvin is currently facing trial.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Says Other Democrats Gave Him ‘No Due Process’ After Sex Assault Allegations, Compares Himself To Emmet Till, George Floyd

The violent riot that erupted in the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday necessarily pulled focus away from the fact that Democrats in Georgia elected a man that would have become a #MeToo villain had he not been a Democrat running for office.
With this knowledge, it’s time to look back at the women who have been ignored by the #MeToo movement because their allegations were against prominent Democrats. This is not to say that there are not issues with some of the stories these women have told, but it is illustrative of the reality of the #MeToo movement: It doesn’t actually care about believing women. Some of the men taken down by the movement were actual predators, but as we’ve seen <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ridiculous-accusations-against-aziz-ansari-ben-shapiro">time</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/he-was-accused-of-sexual-harassment-by-students-who-had-written-him-glowing-professor-reviews-his-new-book-fights-back">and</a> <a href="https://www.newsday.com/opinion/columnists/cathy-young/metoo-junot-diaz-1.19768763">time</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sideways-director-alexander-payne-strongly-denies-rose-mcgowans-sexual-assault-allegation">again</a>, allegations were weaponized to settle petty grievances. Here are some of the most prominent women whose allegations have been largely ignored because they accused Democrats:
Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson
These two women came forward only after it looked like Virginia’s Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax might step up if Gov. Ralph Northam had resigned following the revelation of him dressing in either blackface or a KKK hood during medical school. When speculation that Northam might resign brought Fairfax into the spotlight, Tyson claimed he sexually assaulted her during the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Fairfax acknowledged the tryst, but said it was consensual. A second woman, Watson, then came forward to claim Fairfax raped her while the two were students at Duke University.
The women didn’t make their claims when Fairfax was running for lieutenant governor, just when he was about to become governor – which didn’t happen.
With Fairfax’s acknowledgement that he at least knew the two women, Tyson and Watson had more evidence in their favor than Christine Blasey Ford, who accused then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her while they were both in high school. Ford never presented evidence that she had ever even been in the same room as Kavanaugh, yet her story was shared uncritically and deemed “credible” while Tyson and Watson’s claims were reported and quickly forgotten.
Fairfax has since <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-lt-gov-files-400-million-lawsuit-against-ashe-schow">filed a lawsuit</a> against CBS News over its coverage of the allegations against him.
Tara Reade
Reade is the woman who exposed the #MeToo movement as fraudulent. Suddenly, believing women – the mantra of the movement for years – didn’t actually mean “believe women,” but meant to simply listen to them and then thoroughly investigate their claims before coming to a conclusion. At least, that’s what then-presidential candidate Joe Biden said of Reade’s allegations after he spent a decade decrying due process as anathema to justice for women who claim to be sexual assault victims.
Reade’s story has its own issues, which Politico noted in a piece that would never have been written about a woman accusing a Republican politician (again, remember Kavanaugh). Reade reportedly told friends of Biden’s alleged assault back in 1993, when she worked for him while he was a senator. Her story apparently evolved over time from sexual harassment to assault, and her claim that Biden assaulted her in a “side area” somewhere between Biden’s old Senate office and the senate gym isn’t possible, as no such side area exists in that space. She also apparently inflated her credentials when testifying as an expert witness in two sexual assault cases, for which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-da-investigating-tara-reade-for-false-testimony">she is being investigated</a>.
Had she accused President Donald Trump or any other Republican, such actions to discredit her would not have been taken and her story would still be making headlines.
Jacob Blake’s Alleged Victim:
A woman accused Jacob Blake of sexually assaulting her after breaking into her house. As the New York Post reported:
<blockquote>The victim, who is only identified by her initials in the paperwork, told police she was asleep in bed with one of her children when Blake came into the room around 6 a.m. and allegedly said, “I want my sh-t,” the record states.
She told cops Blake then used his finger to sexually assault her, sniffed it and said, “Smells like you’ve been with other men,” the criminal complaint alleges.
The officer who took her statement said she “had a very difficult time telling him this and cried as she told how the defendant assaulted her.”</blockquote>
Police were attempting to arrest Blake on a warrant stemming from those sexual assault allegations when he resisted arrest. He also at one point had a knife while officers were trying to arrest him.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-cop-shot-jacob-blake-after-hearing-mothers-desperate-plea-that-blake-had-her-kid-report-says">reported</a>, the police officer who shot Blake seven times while attempting to arrest him said he made the decision to shoot after hearing a mother desperately pleading, “He’s got my kid. He’s got my keys.”
Blake’s shooting prompted an additional round of national riots from people claiming police are racist against black people. While Blake became a hero, the woman he allegedly assaulted was ignored, forced to watch millions lionize her alleged attacker. Blake pleaded guilty to two counts of disorderly conduct in order to get the third-degree sexual assault charge dropped.
Oulèye Ndoye Warnock
Oulèye married Sen. Raphael Warnock in 2016, long before he ran for the U.S. Senate. The couple had two children together but separated in November 2019. In March 2019, Oulèye called the police and said Raphael ran over her foot with his car while they were arguing. Raphael denied the incident happened and there was no evidence of injury to Oulèye’s foot, but <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-great-actor-warnocks-wife-told-police-after-incident-that-she-kept-how-he-really-was-under-wraps-for-a-long-time">police bodycam footage</a> revealed that she did call police on her then-husband.
“This man’s running for the United States Senate and all he cares about right now is his reputation.  I work at the mayor’s office and this is a big problem. I’ve been trying to be very quiet about the way he is for the sake of my kids and his reputation … I’ve tried to keep the way that he acts under wraps for a long time and today he crossed the line. So that is what is going on here and he’s a great actor. He is phenomenal at putting on a really good show,” Oulèye says at various points in the footage.
Oulèye’s allegations, like the allegations of the other women on this list, were reported but never brought to the same height as the allegations against Brett Kavanaugh or other #MeToo targets.
Though not a woman, Anthony Washington <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/camper-comes-forward-alleging-abuse-at-warnock-church-camp">also detailed abuse</a> at a church camp that Raphael Warnock oversaw. Washington claimed camp counselors locked him out of his cabin and threw urine on him. Raphael was arrested in 2002 for allegedly obstructing an investigation into child abuse claims against the camp.
Warnock defeated Republican incumbent Kelly Loeffler with 51% of the vote last week.
Op-ed note: The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Shortly after it was discovered that Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam appeared in blackface or a KKK robe in his medical school yearbook, people began speculating he would resign and whether Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax would assume the highest office in the state.
But just as those questions arose, they were shot down when Vanessa Tyson came forward to claim Fairfax had sexually assaulted her during the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Then a second woman, Meredith Watson, said Fairfax <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43258/breaking-second-woman-accuses-virginia-democrat-ryan-saavedra">had raped her</a> while the two were students at Duke University.
Multiple media outlets tepidly covered the accusations and quickly forgot about them, since Fairfax is a Democrat. The allegations against him were also uncorroborated and amounted to a he said/she said situation.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/lt-gov-fairfax-files-400-million-defamation-suit-against-cbs-in-reporting-on-sexual-assault-claims/2019/09/12/f275beb0-d56c-11e9-9343-40db57cf6abd_story.html">reported</a> Thursday that Fairfax is suing CBS News over the way it covered the allegations against him. Fairfax is demanding $400 million from his lawsuit, alleging the news outlet defamed him and “recklessly disregarded the truth,” the Post reported.
Fairfax’s lawsuit mentions a witness could corroborate that the sexual encounter with Watson was consensual, yet CBS aired an interview with both women without speaking to that witness.
“The suit says that a top CBS attorney was a Duke classmate who had dated Watson a year before the alleged assault and remains a friend of both Fairfax and the witness. It claims that the lawyer, though not present, had been told about the sexual encounter by Fairfax and the witness, and believed it to have been consensual,” the Post reported.
Fairfax claims in his lawsuit that he “exchanged numerous text messages and had several conversations since Watson went public with her false accusation against Fairfax in February 2019. Most of these communications occurred before the April 2019 interviews were aired by the [lawyer’s] employer and client, CBS.”
The lawsuit adds that the text messages demonstrated that “Fairfax and the [lawyer] knew from both Fairfax and the eyewitness that the eyewitness was in the room throughout the encounter and that the encounter between Fairfax and Watson was completely consensual.”
The lawsuit contends that this CBS attorney did not intervene in the network’s airing of the interview with Watson, or that he was stopped from doing so.
One of Fairfax’s spokeswomen even asked Gayle King, who conducted the interviews with the women, to ask Watson if she had seen “anyone else on your way in or out” of the dorm room where the sexual encounter took place in college. This question was not asked in any part of the interview that was aired. King is also accused in the lawsuit of failing to ask Tyson, Fairfax’s other accuser, about what he says are discrepancies in her repeated tellings of the alleged sexual assault.
CBS provided a response to the lawsuit to the Post, saying, “We stand by our reporting and we will vigorously defend this lawsuit.”
“CBS’ actions have exposed millions of people to lies that have done extraordinary damage to his reputation and his ability to earn a living,” the lawsuit says. “His once-promising career — a lawyer at top firms, former federal prosecutor, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, candidate for Governor of Virginia for 2021 — has been severely damaged.”
Fairfax is still <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48707/virginia-lt-gov-justin-fairfax-considering-run-ashe-schow">considering a run</a> for governor despite the allegations.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Files $400 Million Lawsuit Against CBS Over Its Coverage Of Sexual Assault Allegations Against Him

Virginia&#8217;s lieutenant governor, Justin Fairfax, says he&#8217;s considering a run for governor of the state, despite the fact that he&#8217;s still the target of several unresolved sexual assault claims.
Fairfax even suggested that the sexual assault allegations helped raise his profile enough to earn statewide name recognition.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justin-fairfax-governor-sexual-abuse-raised-profile">Fox News reports that Fairfax made the claims</a> in an interview with the Richmond, Virginia, Times-Dispatch, where he claimed he was &#8220;inspired&#8221; to seek higher office by a recent trip to the United Kingdom.
&#8220;Going on that trip and even leaving that trip, I was really inspired,&#8221; Fairfax reportedly told the Times-Dispatch. &#8220;I&#8217;m very hopeful about the future. We&#8217;ve gotten a lot of encouragement about future political steps. I&#8217;m thinking very seriously about 2021.&#8221;
Fairfax, a Democrat, has somehow escaped any serious scrutiny following sexual assault claims from a pair of women who knew him from college and his early days in politics.
&#8220;In February, Scripps college associated professor Vanessa C. Tyson came forward with a claim that Fairfax assaulted her at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. Days later, a second accuser, Meredith Watson, said Fairfax raped her when they were both students at Duke University in 2000,&#8221; Fox News reports.
Both women came forward at a time where Democrats, urged on by both the &#8220;#MeToo&#8221; movement and recent confirmation hearings for now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which also involved claims of sexual assault, were encouraging Americans to &#8220;believe all women&#8221; &#8212; but it seems that, unlike the alleged victims of Harvey Weinstein and Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, these women were sidelined for making their claims against a Democratic politician with a bright political future in a now-solidly blue state.
Fairfax was the second of three prominent Virginia politicians to become embroiled in a scandal in early 2019. Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam was discovered to have posed for a medical school yearbook photo in a racially charged Halloween costume, and the state&#8217;s Democratic attorney general, Mark Herring, also admitted to once wearing a racially insensitive costume that involved blackface.
Neither of those men has faced any marked consequences for their alleged racism. Northam went on a brief &#8220;listening tour&#8221; in his own state, while vehemently denying having posed for the photo, which showed two men, one dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan and one dressed in minstrel makeup. He has since operated as though the issue never existed.
Allegations against Fairfax emerged amid discussions over who would replace Northam were he to resign his role as Virginia&#8217;s governor. They were likewise forgotten after a few weeks.
Oddly enough, Fairfax now says that he believes the sexual assault allegations actually did him a favor. Instead of killing his career outright, they raised his profile, and he now believes he has enough name recognition to undertake a campaign for governor.
&#8220;Many people a year ago would not have recognized me, now they really do,&#8221; Fairfax told the Times-Dispatch. &#8220;People come up to me at gas stations, they say, &#8216;Hey, we recognize you. We love you. We know what they are saying about you is false.&#8217;&#8221;
Fairfax could face stiff competition in the upcoming election, however. Former Virginia governor and longtime Clinton family ally, Terry McAuliffe, says he may return to the race despite &#8220;retiring&#8221; to pursue other interests. After deciding to forgo the 2020 presidential election, McAuliffe is now without a job and would like the one he abandoned &#8212; Virginia&#8217;s governorship &#8212; back.

Virginia’s Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Says He’s Considering Running For Governor Despite Sexual Assault Claims

One of the many Virginia Democrats currently mired in scandal, Lieutenant Gov. Justin Fairfax, said he was &#8220;thinking very seriously&#8221; about running for governor.
Of all the Democrats currently involved in a political scandal, Fairfax is the only one who has been accused of something without evidence, and he has denied the sexual assault allegations against him. The first accusation came earlier this year, in February, after it looked like Fairfax may ascend to Virginia governor following the revelation that Gov. Ralph Northam dressed in blackface while in medical school. A second accusation against Fairfax came days later.
Neither of the allegations against Fairfax have any evidence to support them outside of the allegations, yet national and local Democrats called for Fairfax to resign.
Those calls quickly disappeared after the next in line for governor, Attorney General Mark Herring, also admitted to wearing blackface in college, which would mean the next in line for governor would be a Republican.
If Fairfax were a Republican, protesters would be outside his home and office day and night, following him to work, harassing anyone walking by, screaming about how they&#8217;re also victims and he doesn&#8217;t care about victims of sexual assault. That&#8217;s what happened to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh when similarly flimsy allegations were made against him. In Kavanaugh&#8217;s case, however, the media ran with the uncorroborated allegations to try and keep him off the Supreme Court.
The Washington Post was even aware of Vanessa Tyson&#8217;s claims against Fairfax and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/43055/washington-posts-bias-running-flimsy-accusations-ashe-schow">decided against</a> reporting them.
Fairfax seems to be standing firm in his denial. Tyson accused him of sexually assaulting her at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, and Meredith Watson accused him of raping her while they were both students at Duke University. He refused to resign.
Now he&#8217;s eyeing a run for governor, saying the allegations have raised his profile and that people don&#8217;t believe the allegations against him.
&#8220;Many people a year ago would not have recognized me, now they really do,&#8221; Fairfax <a href="https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/government-politics/fairfax-thinking-very-seriously-about-run-for-governor-says-scandal/article_37b579fe-cefa-56f7-b021-5a951782b62a.html">told</a> the Richmond Times-Dispatch. &#8220;People come up to me at gas stations, they say, &#8216;Hey, we recognize you. We love you. We know what they are saying about you is false.&#8217;&#8221;
At this same roundtable discussion with reporters, Fairfax said he was &#8220;very hopeful about the future&#8221; and &#8220;thinking very seriously&#8221; about running for governor in 2021.
The women who accused Fairfax have wanted a hearing before Virginia&#8217;s General Assembly. Fairfax and Virginia Democrats have refused, insisting (correctly) that law enforcement should investigate instead. No police reports have been filed regarding the allegations.
It is quite different than how the Kavanaugh allegations played out. The women who accused him provided just as little evidence, yet they have been lionized in the media and treated as truth-telling victims. Fairfax&#8217;s accusers have been relegated to local news reports, ignored by the major left-wing media outlets.
If Fairfax runs for governor, he may struggle, but he may also give hope to other men who believe they were falsely accused, showing that one can still aspire to greater things.

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Considering Run For Governor, Says Sex Assault Scandal Raised His Public Profile

The Virginia GOP announced Wednesday that the Virginia House of Delegates will not hold hearings, allowing the two women accusing Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax of sexual assault to testify under oath.
The GOP noted that the decision came after days of negotiation with Virginia Democrats, who they say did everything they could to prevent the hearings from happening.
&#8220;There should be no mistake about what has happened here: the alleged victims are seeking a bipartisan hearing; Republicans are seeking a bipartisan hearing; Democrats in the House of Delegates are refusing to allow that to happen,&#8221; Republican Speaker Kirk Cox <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/gop-dems-wont-hold-bipartisan-hearing-for-fairfax-accusers">told Fox News</a>.
Virginia Republicans have already heard from both Vanessa Tyson, who says Fairfax forced her to perform a sexual act in a hotel room at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and Meredith Watson, who claims Fairfax raped her while the pair were students at Duke University in 2000.
Cox released a statement after the two women had spoken to a contingent of GOP officials, stressing the importance of not allowing the women&#8217;s allegations to go unheard.
&#8220;For the last two days, we have watched excruciating first-hand accounts from two survivors of sexual assault who allege that Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax assaulted and raped them in separate incidents in the early 2000s,&#8221; Cox said in a written statement released to media.
&#8220;Over the course of the last few weeks, we have communicated with attorneys representing Dr. Vanessa Tyson and Ms. Meredith Watson,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Through those conversations, they have told us that Dr. Tyson and Ms. Watson are prepared to share their accounts at a legislative hearing, but only if there is bipartisan cooperation to conduct the hearing.&#8221;
Both women have told Virginia legislators that they want to testify, under oath, in front of the full House of Delegates, and that they are willing to answer questions about their encounters with Fairfaix, but both women say that they&#8217;d prefer to speak in a hearing organized by a bipartisan committee so as to appear as neutral on Fairfax as possible and to dispell the appearance of political motives.
Democrats justified their response to the GOP&#8217;s request by claiming that law enforcement is best suited to handle allegations of sexual assault.
&#8220;Law enforcement officials are best equipped to investigate these matters, and we certainly would not want to harm their inquiries or deny due process to either the complainants or the Lieutenant Governor by conducting a hearing that could easily be exploited for political purposes,&#8221; the Virginia House of Delegates minority leader said, according to Fox.
At least one Democrat did recall to reporters that Fairfax had been asked to resign, but no one appears to have followed up on that request.
The allegations against Fairfax had fallen beneath the radar for several weeks, but resurfaced this week after Tyson and Watson agreed to lengthy interviews with CBS This Morning&#8217;s Gayle King, where they both recounted the interactions with Fairfax in great detail. The show brought a renewed interest to Fairfax&#8217;s situation, as well as questions as to why the story had so easily slipped from the headlines.
Neither Fairfax nor Virginia governor Ralph Northam has resigned from their respective posts, even though Fairfax faced these credible allegations, and Northam is reportedly one of two men pictured in a very racist photo that appears in Northam&#8217;s medical school yearbook.

Virginia Legislature WON’T Hold Hearings For Fairfax Sexual Assault Accuers

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Sexual assault allegations against Virginia&#8217;s Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax surfaced weeks ago, but both Fairfax and his accusers appeared to go silent on the matter. In the case of Fairfax, the self-imposed vow of silence was likely designed to allow the incident to pass out of mind &#8212; but this week, his accusers will give their first public interview to CBS This Morning.
<a href="https://pilotonline.com/news/government/politics/virginia/article_4508e64c-53e1-11e9-bbdb-73a0449c38df.html">The Virgininian-Pilot reports</a> that both &#8220;Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson &#8212; who have alleged that Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax assaulted them years ago&#8221; granted interviews to CBS News, bringing renewed attention to the matter.
&#8220;I think the Virginia people, the voters of Virginia, have a right to know both my story and Meredith&#8217;s story,&#8221; Tyson is shown saying in a clip of the interview with CBS&#8217;s Gayle King. &#8220;I think there should be a public hearing.&#8221;
&#8220;In my ideal world, I&#8217;d want him to resign,&#8221; Tyson concludes.
Tyson alleges that Fairfax assaulted her while the pair were working at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts, <a href="http://time.com/5523274/vanessa-tyson-virginia-sexual-assault/">according to TIME Magazine</a>, which covered the story when Tyson first came forward with her allegations in February.
&#8220;While they were in [a hotel room at the convention],&#8221; Tyson alleged in a statement released through her attorneys last month, &#8220;Fairfax caught her off guard by kissing her. While the kiss was consensual, Tyson said, what happened next was not. She said Fairfax unbuckled his pants, grabbed her head and forced her to perform oral sex on him.&#8221;
Fairfax told media, at the time, that he believed the encounter was consenusal.
&#8220;At no time did she express to me any discomfort or concern about our interactions, neither during that encounter, nor during the months that followed it, when she stayed in touch with me, nor the past fifteen years. She in no way indicated that anything that had happened between us made her uncomfortable,&#8221; he said in a statement.
Meredith Watson &#8220;came forward after Tyson and accused the lieutenant governor of raping her in 2000 when both were studying at Duke University,&#8221; according to the Virginian-Pilot.
Fairfax denies that allegation as well, and, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/31/politics/justin-fairfax-virginia-polygraph/">according to CNN</a>, took two separate polygraph tests in order to prove he was not lying. <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/436646-accuser-calls-for-a-public-hearing-of-assault-allegations-against">The Hill also reports</a> that Fairfax has asked the FBI to look into both accusers.
Virginia&#8217;s Democratic leadership faced something of a meltdown in early February following a vote in the Virginia legislature over legalizing third trimester abortion. Virginia Governor Ralph Northam was alleged to have posed in a racially charged photo in medical school, and pictures surfaced of Northam and a friend dressed up for a costume party, one as a member of the Ku Klux Klan and one in minstrel-style blackface. Fairfax was subsequently accused of sexual assault. The state&#8217;s Democratic attorney general was also revealed to have posed in blackface, though during high school.
Northam refused to resign, and after a public apology and a &#8220;listening tour,&#8221; Northam remains in office. No other Democratic leaders have left office, despite the severity of the accusations.
The allegations against Fairfax were never publicly investigated. Tyson reportedly tells Gayle King in her interview that she will happily submit to an interview in front of the Virginia General Assembly.

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